Adjustable tongue.



PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907 J. P. NESTE. ADJUSTABLE TONGUE. APPLIOATION FILED 00126, 1006.

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JAMES P. NESTE, OF LAKE MILLS, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE TONGUE.

v Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application filed October a. 1906. Sorislllo. 337.722.

l ad pted-"to be applied to threshing machines,

separators and machines of a similar chit-recer, and to be connected to a traction engine, and has for its ob ect to provide means 1 whereby such machines may be turned in l i 5 the desired direction in inconvenient places,

and readily backed between gmin stacks, and guided in narrow passage-ways. This 1 accomplish by the menus illustrated in the ecdonipnnying drawings, in which drawings 1 like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the views, and in which .hgurc 1 is it plan of n device embodying my; invention; Fig. is a longitudinal verticalf section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1

and Fig. 3 is a plan of o modification of my invention.

As illustrated in the drawings, 1 represents a cross bar adapted to be scoured to the axle of n threshing iniu'zhinc or separator, by means of draft eye-bolts 2, said her being rovidcd with a series of perforations 1.

races 3 are secured. at their rcnr ends to the cross bar and connected together at their for- Ward ends, vforming a frame, to which frame it stub tongue 4 is pivotolly attached by means of a. bolt 10, and the forward end of the tongue is preferably prm-idcd with it strap or band i) covering said and, end with a perforation adapted to receive a coupling pin 7. The rear end of the tongue is provided with a yoke 5 preferably having a longitudinal slot 5 adapted to receive spin 8. The yoke 5 preferably extends around the bar 1 and is secured to the rear end of the tongue bymecns of bolts 6. By releasing the pin 8 from the yoke 5, the rear end of the tongue may be adjusted at any desired point longitudinally of the cross bar 1, and secured in any desired position by inserting the pin 8 through the recess 5 and a perforation 1 at the desired point in the cross bar.

I prefer in most instances to use an arc crossbar 11, provided with perforations 11*, adapted to receive a locking pin orbolt 12, also passing through the tongue 12, thereby dispensing with the slotted yoke 5, or extension of the stubpole 4.

Having thus described the invention, whet I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v v

The combination with a tongue provided on one end with a. rearwardly extending yoke havin its ends secured to said tongue, and provided with a. longitudinal slot, a cross bar arranged within said yoke and provided with a series of apertures, braces secured to said, cross bar and tongue, ends. locking pin ongaging the apertures of said yoke and cross,

LEWIS P. Nnsrn, BENNIE FnoE. 

